to enable a policy framework to broaden and expand the conditions under which a positive test result of prohibited substances must be disregarded;

Defence Reserve Service (Protection) Act 2001

to: extend the application of employment, partnership and education protections to all types of Reserve service; extend the application of financial liability and bankruptcy protections to full time service that is operational service; protect reservists in the workplace from harassment or detriment including victimisation relating to their status or service as a reservist; and introduce a civil penalty regime to complement existing criminal offences;

Defence Reserve Service (Protection) Act 2001

and the proposed

Regulatory Powers (Standardisation Reform) Act 2017

to make amendments contingent on the commencement of the

Regulatory Powers (Standardisation Reform) Act 2017

;

Intelligence Services Act 2001

,

Navigation Act 2012

and

Telecommunications Act 1997

to transfer hydrographic, meteorological and oceanographic functions from the Royal Australian Navy to the Australian Geospatial-Intelligence Organisation; and

Australian Defence Force Cover Act 2015

to: align certain provisions with other military superannuation schemes; and clarify the definition of an eligible child of a member or invalid.

Implements the Government’s response to the recommendations of the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters’ report The 2016 Federal Election: Interim Report on the authorisation of voter communication by amending the:

Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

to: apply the electoral authorisation requirements to modern communication channels; require all paid electoral advertising to be authorised; require entities subject to the electoral funding and financial disclosure regime to include this information in their political communications; ensure the obligation to authorise electoral and referendum matter primarily rests with those responsible for the decision to communicate it; and replace the current criminal non-compliance regime with a civil penalty regime to be administered by the Australian Electoral Commission;

Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984

,

Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1993

,

Broadcasting Services Act 1992

and

Special Broadcasting Service Act 1991

to harmonise authorisation requirements across broadcasting, electoral and referendum legislation;

Parliamentary Proceedings Broadcasting Act 1946

to make consequential amendments; and

Criminal Code Act 1995

to introduce an offence which criminalises false representations in relation to a Commonwealth body.

to: ensure that penalty rates in a modern award cannot be varied to make the penalty rate lower than that in force under the award on 30 June 2017; provide that any such determination made by the Fair Work Commission made on or after 22 February 2017 is of no effect; and ensure that penalty rates cannot be reduced in any future greenfields or non-greenfields enterprise agreement if an employee is worse off than they would have been under the award, by virtue of the fact that the employee works only or mainly on days on which penalty rates are paid.

to: ensure that modern awards cannot be varied to reduce penalty rates or the hours to which penalties rates apply if the variation is likely to result in a reduction in the take-home pay of an employee; and provide that any such determination made by the Fair Work Commission made on or after 22 February 2017 is of no effect.

to: ensure that modern awards cannot be varied to reduce penalty rates or the hours to which penalties rates apply if the variation is likely to result in a reduction in the take-home pay of an employee; and provide that any such determination made by the Fair Work Commission made on or after 22 February 2017 is of no effect.